Letting yourself go

A person so complicated it has me confusing myself when I ask if it's the fear of knowing or feeling too much that has you stuck up where you are because that's what it is, you are stuck. 

You run away from arguments that make us understand you better. You run away from confrontations that make us get more knowledge of you. You hide behind your mistakes instead of pushing past them to correct them.

It's hard, but why don't you start by consciously engaging your heart instead of unconsciously closing it down. You keep running around without realising that you are running to, and from the same place over and over again.

Let yourself go and let your mind and heart resonate with that which has drowned your ability to love and learn. To survive and not just live. To be happy without struggling with every nerve to be.

Love can only be obtained by those with courage. Have that courage because it's the things you don't do that you regret. 

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What he walked away from

He was young and vibrant. Full of life and happiness. Beauty was he that just looking at him made other people happy. He was the special kind. The kind that made love happen in places where a soul couldn't have imagined. 

All of a sudden his sweet innocence covered his present like a shadow tagging along and creeping up on him like a pick pocket. 

He got tired of doing the nice things because he received none in return. They weren't worth it anymore. Nobody was. The feeling in his gut judged him continuously, but he couldn't erase the memory of betrayal and of the person who left.

"Someday everything will all make perfect sense." 

That also made him understand that a person you meet today may have better intentions for you than the person you have known your entire life. 

He didn't remind himself to be happy because he had to be, he reminded himself because he knew he deserved to be.

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Chase not your happiness away

The happiness we find within from those without the fear to give, share, and find love in others but themselves, is divine.

Why will you be sad when he is at will to give you the love you have long dreamt for and about. 

Why will you be reluctant to receive from he who gives to you that helping hand in your time of need. The want of not being subjective to that man?. The all passionate and compassionate man who trys to bring that light into your life to make it brighter than it already is. 

Whether we like it or not, we were born to love, to give, to share, and to understand. Some of us only choose not to.

Where do you want to go home to? That place of cold and loneliness smothering you slowly like a cat in an empty pot on a burning plate, waiting  for a toddler to come save  it.

 And all at once she was alone in this noisy hive with no place to roost. 

Do not give it all you have when all you have isn't enough to light a candle in your life, but give yourself a break, and a chance to lift yourself up and be happy. 

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#WordsUnspoken

The young poet, Graham Garrick currently studying Law in the University of Benin, is a spoken word artist. He brings to life the Gospel, and shares the reality of life with beautiful poetry. 

Words so beautiful it captures the soul with an intended arrest and a feeling of acceptance and gratitude.  Spoken words speak the Gospel, giving such strong inspiration as it speaks to your soul and lifts you up from the ground you know or don't know you're under.

Creating a strong and mighty impact in the society through the art of words is what Spoken Words is all about. Words Unspoken 2015 (REGARDLESS)  is the first of its kind, and doesn't intend to be a one time event. This upcoming concert will hold on the 4th of July,2015 at the Akin Deko Auditorium in the University of Benin. 

This year, the team of Words Unspoken intend not only to add value to the society, but also to add substance and give hope.

Let these great words of poetry speak to you. Allow it flow into you, and let it change your life as it spreads and promotes the Gospel. 
IG: @graham_garrick   and   @wordsunspoken_gg
Twitter: @Rated_pun_663 

To listen to some of his works you can download them via these links:
ABIKE
https://t.co/OfsB68fGiB

IF I WERE HIM
https://db.tt/OAQaABuQ

HE UNDERSTANDS 
https://db.tt/zHFyYb90

LIFE ON THE EDGE
https://www.dropbox.com/s/2oa8o3lvlogqzgn/LIFE%20ON%20THE%20EDGE.mp3?dl=0

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Celebrating the children

Happy Children's Day to all the children, and the baby mama's, and papa's. We celebrate the children because we know how important they are and will be, to us and the society at large. What joy or sadness,and fear or grief they bring to us do not stop the worry and the love, so we honor them.

I pray for all the children who have no home,no family, and no friends. The children who have no one to celebrate them, to motivate them, and to push them forward lovingly and not with hate or deceit. 

The smallest children are nearest to God as the smallest Planets are nearest to the sun. 

Do something nice and special for your child, sibling, little neighbour or cousin, or the children on the streets today. Let them feel good about themselves and be happy, for this may be the only day in a long time that you'll create that small but mighty spark in their lives.

The small thing you do may just be the biggest they have ever received. Be nicer than you normally are. Be more friendly than you have ever been, not only with what you give or do,but most importantly with your heart.

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Which way Nigeria?

Can this be the darkness before the light, or their meaning of light before the darkness?. What is happening in this country that has us running around, and in between places trying to find anything but the solution to whatever the problem is.

Airlines have cancelled flights, radio stations have rationed airtime, MTN and other Telecommunications companies have announced an impending shutdown, GT BANK have notified us of their early closure, and we cannot even have comfort by just being on our own because blackouts are in almost every location. What else can we expect?.

What's to stop an external aggressor from invading our country now? Citizens of the UK are already questioning the legality of Nigeria as a country. What else is new when hospitals cannot even perform surgeries to save lives, and it just keeps getting worse. 

Thankfully, the Major Oil Marketers Association of Nigeria, MOMAN, have agreed to call off their strike over unpaid subsidy claims. So by tomorrow, and from tomorrow hopefully, things will get better. 

Begging the question, "what is this country turning into?" is too much of a cliché now, for we still pay the price of the Corruption in our country, and there is always something wrong somewhere. But which way are we going? 

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Style Crush •||• Bernan

     

     Bernan Doll is an up and coming fashion designer based in Maryland, USA. A very good designer who portrays modest designs in her collection has been able to speak her type of fashion on runways in fashion shows and on social media.

     The  beautiful young woman, also today's Style Crush, has a lovely sense of style and doesn't have a problem modeling or advertising her works. Her designs are really classy, stylish, crisp, and edgy, yet modest! 

     It gives me pleasure to follow up her new designs and save them, hoping to get them soon enough. You could too, and also place your orders, because this strong brand of Bernan wears have a lot to offer. 

#Bernanmylittlebitofalookalike 
@bernandoll 

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The Cry Of The Innocent

Shower me with the blessing the God I know sent you to bless me with. Fill my emptiness with that which only you can fill. Surround me with the love you say you have for me, and set my aching heart free from the chains of lost hope.

I surrender to you, a commoner. Be my imperfectly perfect commoner, and let me show you the love I have left in me so that you may spread that love like the farmer spreads his crops, and let us help me harvest it. 

Hold me in your arms like you are afraid to let me go, for I am a safe dynamite that has not found a good place to blow. Understand that where I came from, and the insecurities that have filled my spirit has led me this far. 

The mistakes hunt and hurt, piercing every nerve each time they come to mind. Could it be who I never expected or whom I always wanted?. There is always a reason to smile and I am trying to find it. Make it easier for me and accept what I have to offer, because someone I loved once gave me a box full of darkness, and it took me years to understand that this too was a gift. 

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Where are you headed?

You bruised for it, worked for it, sided, and built with it, and where did that get you? To a home where you don't belong. To that place that doesn't say welcome every and anytime you come to it. 

You want that home because it is where your heart should be,and could be if only that's where they want it to be. But you know that giving up on that home without trying isn't it. Give your all and keep on trying before your tears make your heart surrender. 

It becomes something that makes you shudder everytime it comes to mind while you ponder like a child on why you shouldn't surrender and become weaker and less of a fighter. 

What better fighter is there to fight for you than yourself? You are capable and you deserve to belong to a place that'll accept you for what you are, only because they can't help but love the love you bring and the truth in where you came from. 

You worked hard to get to where you are, so that makes it a bigger deal to not slow down because of whatever you feel it is at the moment. Be rest assured that God's got you. So get you, and there will be better times to laugh about the challenges you have faced and walked right past.

Never give up on something you want. Don't become a foot mat and then complain when folks step on you.  Sometimes people disappoint you, but sometimes they surprise you. It will be your lucky day one day so know your destination. 

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Gov. Oshiomole's True Love... or Nah?

Most women go into relationships with the idea that they'll change a man to suit them. 

Some go into relationships with the idea that they'll make the man learn to love them. 

Others go into it, or deeper still, into a marriage simply with the idea that his money or status can make them love him.

It's not that easy to restructure a person's personality or his looks to satisfy oneself, and there's not much of a man who will allow a woman do that to him.

What has marriage forever been about? Can it be about love only,  because what we see and have become familiar with today clearly shows that marriage is also about the comfort one or both party benefits from it. Then Nigerians ask what kind of country this is that has Governor Oshiomole getting married to a really beautiful young white woman.
Lala Fortez must have been told times without number that she deserves the best, and to her obviously if the best isn't the Governor of Edo State, then she does not want it. Unless this marriage is for something else enitrely...

If you wear a disguise for too long it will be difficult for the mirror to recognize you. Is this the point where we get told that at the end of the day they hope we do not become the person they expect us to be?, because we cannot be anyone but who we want us to be and for who. We often act deceitfully in relationships by sending signals we are unwilling to back up, and for this kind of relationship i must say that there must be a wrong signal somewhere or a strange vibe coming from either one of them. 

Love does not seek its own. It looks out for the interest of the object of its affection and there is definitely an interest to look out for here, but if you think about this calmly you can imagine the benefit of the doubt in this situation. 
We are so accustomed to not minding our own business and searching for the wrong where there can be a right. The idea that someone can be a lot happier with someone a lot older is somewhat unappealing and so not modern to us anymore. What about what makes us happy? What about what drives us crazy and what makes us do these crazy things that make people question who we are and why we live?

If someone chooses not to receive your love, it doesn't mean another won't celebrate it. But is this True Love..or nah?

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Cages of our own

What should be understood about life is nothing actually. We can't understand anything that doesn't stop confusing us.. take a look around you and try to figure out why you did look around or why you thought about doing that in the first place. You looked around without knowing because your mind acted for you long before your head could figure out why it did.

We all act on impulse realizing most of what we did right after it is done. Just like in the stage of puberty, we are really conscious and somewhat overly excited, confused, and at the same time surprised at ourselves and the circumstances we find ourselves in at all stages of our lives. What we respond to and how we do respond.

Looking back on the things you have done and wondering if you could have done better is just a waste of the time you could use to make things better for yourself and for those around you. We build bridges for people to be able to get to us but we destroy them before we let those people try coming in because of our insecurities. So insecure are we that we don't even trust ourselves with the things we love and don't.

Be free from what is taking hold of you and feel how beautiful it is to be free. It's hard alright to be free when you are not even aware of the cage you are in. The cage that surrounds you and is supposed to stop you from going or doing whatever it is that you want. It's up to you to let what you want in, what you need and what you want to feel in, so be wise enough.

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